Great War poets: six books of criticism, biography etc

Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas & Robert Graves

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Printing Details

This is a collection of six books, all concerning First World War poets. Five are hardback, details below.

1. English Poetry of the First World War; A Bibliography by Catherine W Reilly (George Prior Publishers, 1978). First edition, very good condition. A valuable resource being an alphabetical list of Great War poets and their works.

2. The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney by Michael Hurd (OUP, 1978). First edition, hardback in dustwrapper. Good plus condition. Wrapper's spine faded, bookplate to ffep. Perfectly readable.

3. The Art of Edward Thomas, edited by Jonathan Barker. (Poetry Wales, 1987).First edition, hardback in dustwrapper. Very good condition. A collection of essays on the poet killed at Arras in 1917.

4. The Childhood of Edward Thomas, A Fragment of Autobiography with a preface by Roland Gant (Faber, 1983). Paperback. Covers rubbed but contents very good.

5. Robert Graves, The Assault Heroic 1895–1926 by Richard Percival Graves (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986). First edition, hardback in dustwrapper. Slight fading to wrapper's spine but otherwise very good.

6. Robert Graves, His Life and Work by Martin Seymour (Holt Reinhart Winston, New York, 1983). First US edition. Very good with a slightly faded wrapper.

Condition

All six books are in strong readable condition.